Registry cleaners
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Thanks for the suggestion.
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I too recommend CCleaner. It is very useful tool.
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Does anyone have any recommendation for good registry cleaners? (Free ones would be most appreciated, although I wouldn't mind paying if the thing has good reputation.) I've got a 2-year-old home PC that's nearly grinding to a halt. Can't say for certain it's the registry, but it's worth a try. Cheers.
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d@nish wrote:
As others already mentioned, registry cleaners are not really reliable.
Aye... Getting the picture here... :sigh:
d@nish wrote:
I would still second Ccleaner.
:thumbsup: Reassuring to hear that.
d@nish wrote:
As far as system getting slow is concerned, is there any suspicious process or service eating up the resources?
It's either something scary-looking was eating up the resources (i.e. don't know if it's safe to turn that off) or there isn't a single offending process. I have to admit I've not looked at it properly lately.
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Try sysinternals tools to see what is specifically eating up resources. Task manager sucks at the task.
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I too recommend CCleaner. It is very useful tool.
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Does anyone have any recommendation for good registry cleaners? (Free ones would be most appreciated, although I wouldn't mind paying if the thing has good reputation.) I've got a 2-year-old home PC that's nearly grinding to a halt. Can't say for certain it's the registry, but it's worth a try. Cheers.
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After you've done the usual spyware, virus checks. You might go ahead and do a dump on the registry as a backup before you run your reg cleaner. It just goes out as a text file. The suggestion about MSConfig is great. I'd unplug from the internet and turn everything off in there that I could and turn them on selectively. Do NOT forget to defrag the page file. That is usually missed in the laundry list of things to go after but it gets fragmented just like anything else on a disk. Best way to defrag it is to move it to another drive. Second best way (that I know) is to blow it away and then do defrag on the whole drive. Then rebuild it. Or you could use this little utility from MS. http://technet.microsoft.com/en-us/sysinternals/bb897426[^] Old machines get fragmented page files but nothing defrags them natively. One of the things you get from a fresh re-install is this would get rebuild. But if this is one of your primary problems you might just run this first and see if you don't have to go through the (potential) agony of a rebuild. It runs the defrag on the reboot, btw. I keep page file on a separate drive (or partition) and have set up servers this way as well. Makes for a rock-solid system in a lot of cases.
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Does anyone have any recommendation for good registry cleaners? (Free ones would be most appreciated, although I wouldn't mind paying if the thing has good reputation.) I've got a 2-year-old home PC that's nearly grinding to a halt. Can't say for certain it's the registry, but it's worth a try. Cheers.
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My understanding is that registry cleaners are about as much value for money as those injector cleaners you put in your petrol tank.
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Does anyone have any recommendation for good registry cleaners? (Free ones would be most appreciated, although I wouldn't mind paying if the thing has good reputation.) I've got a 2-year-old home PC that's nearly grinding to a halt. Can't say for certain it's the registry, but it's worth a try. Cheers.
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I use regvac. They have the ugliest website and you may wonder how they can still be in business. However, the guy that wrote the software and runs the site makes a damn good reg cleaner. check it out here[^]
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I use regvac. They have the ugliest website and you may wonder how they can still be in business. However, the guy that wrote the software and runs the site makes a damn good reg cleaner. check it out here[^]
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Does anyone have any recommendation for good registry cleaners? (Free ones would be most appreciated, although I wouldn't mind paying if the thing has good reputation.) I've got a 2-year-old home PC that's nearly grinding to a halt. Can't say for certain it's the registry, but it's worth a try. Cheers.
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What do you expect as result?
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Does anyone have any recommendation for good registry cleaners? (Free ones would be most appreciated, although I wouldn't mind paying if the thing has good reputation.) I've got a 2-year-old home PC that's nearly grinding to a halt. Can't say for certain it's the registry, but it's worth a try. Cheers.
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I used to use a product called RegCleaner from Jouni Vuorio. No complaints. I'd fire it up about once per week and it'd list the new items first so I could always stay on top of things.
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You just reminded me of the Peter Brock's Energy Polarizer[^]
I was actually going to use that as the example but then thought "how many guys here know about it" Ah - keeping the dream alive...
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Point taken... I should probably sit down and work out what useless programs the thing is running. The PC in question belongs to my other half, and it's still booting up while I'm happily checking emails and reading the news on the web on my Mac when we start up at the same time. Just looking for a quicker way out of this problem...
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PaulowniaK wrote:
The PC in question belongs to my other half, and it's still booting up while...
Have you looked through the HKLM\SOFTWARE\Microsoft\Windows\CurrentVersion\Run key? One approach is to rename each value in that key (I usually just put an underscore in front of the name), reboot the computer, and use it for a few days. As you find legitimate programs that start to complain, rename the values back to what they should be. After several weeks of normal usage, you should find what is necessary and what is not.
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Does anyone have any recommendation for good registry cleaners? (Free ones would be most appreciated, although I wouldn't mind paying if the thing has good reputation.) I've got a 2-year-old home PC that's nearly grinding to a halt. Can't say for certain it's the registry, but it's worth a try. Cheers.
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I use CCleaner and it works pretty well.
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Does anyone have any recommendation for good registry cleaners? (Free ones would be most appreciated, although I wouldn't mind paying if the thing has good reputation.) I've got a 2-year-old home PC that's nearly grinding to a halt. Can't say for certain it's the registry, but it's worth a try. Cheers.
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Does anyone have any recommendation for good registry cleaners? (Free ones would be most appreciated, although I wouldn't mind paying if the thing has good reputation.) I've got a 2-year-old home PC that's nearly grinding to a halt. Can't say for certain it's the registry, but it's worth a try. Cheers.
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I recently bought one from Uniblue, and it did appear to help. But the real culprit dragging my system down was AdAware, and once I removed that, the system was back to new condition. The number of registry errors detected by the Uniblue cleaner has also dropped significantly, so the product appears to be doing something. But the Registry design is supposed to be fairly robust, and although it gets cluttered, I'm not convinced that this is a real problem. One feature of the Uniblue offering, though, is that it at least makes a backup copy of any Registry hive it plans to change before making any edits. Whether it's useful or not is unproven, but at least it's polite.
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Try sysinternals tools to see what is specifically eating up resources. Task manager sucks at the task.
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Alberto Bar-Noy wrote:
Try sysinternals tools
Thanks for the tip. Had a look at it at work on an XP and it looked pretty good. However, the Windows 7 version seems to be supplied from a different place. Do you know anything about that?
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What do you expect as result?
FILETIME to time_t
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What do you expect as result?
Decreased complaints from my other half... :rolleyes:
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CClear is a tool used for clean disks.not registry.. :sigh: I am not a genius, but shed more sweat!
Aric Green wrote:
CClear is a tool used for clean disks.not registry.
Does both, actually...
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